Working with outlines

- [Narrator] To this point, as we've been working with text…in our various slides in a presentation,…we've been doing the work directly on the slide itself,…so there's where we see the formatting and so on,…but it's also where we work with the content of the slide.…Well, another way to work with text…is to do it in the outline mode.…So we're going to go up to the outline tab,…but if you're skipping to this lesson,…go up to the Office button, give it a click, click open,…navigate to the Lesson5 folder of your exercise files…and open up this one here, IntroducingECP5g.…

Give that one a click.…When you click the open button,…you'll be all caught up with us,…and you can scroll down through your slides…down to the second last one, slide number seven,…and that's where we left off in the previous lesson.…All right, let's move now to outline mode,…so so far, we've been working with the slides tab,…and that's what we see over here is our slide,…and we can work on our slide, that's no problem.…But sometimes it's easier when you're working with content…

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2/2/2007

PowerPoint 2007 joins its Office counterparts by featuring a brand-new interface, as well as a selection of new powerful presentation features. Instructor David Rivers explains each of its new features in detail, including an essential overview of the new interface, navigating a presentation, creating and editing presentations, working with tables and charts, importing and exporting data, and sharing presentations via various media. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

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Q: In PowerPoint 2003 and earlier, I was able to set my spacing before and after a line by percentage. Now, in PowerPoint 2007, I can only change the spacing by point size. Setting a percentage of the font size for the spacing between paragraphs was ideal - if the font size changed the paragraph spacing changed with it. Is there a workaround that lets me size the before/after paragraph spacing by percentage?

A: This is a common complaint for PowerPoint users who were used to using the “lines” option for before and after spacing.
Unfortunately, there is no workaround to achieve the functionality that was available in PowerPoint 2003, and it has not even been rectified in PowerPoint 2010 (despite all the complaints). The only thing that comes close is to change the before and after settings to zero and use the Multiple option for line spacing, and then set it to the desired number of lines (e.g. 1.5). Because text is automatically sized to a best fit, most paragraphs will appear on a single line, with the selected line spacing figure in lines showing between the paragraphs. You may need to play with this one to get the right number for your scenario.